Remembered City: Prints and Drawings by Tony Fitzpatrick

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A Conversation With Ring Lardner, Jr, Frances Chaney, Studs Terkel, John Henry Faulk. Revisiting the 50\u27s: The Blacklist in America

On the evening of February 20, Columbia College sponsored a special dialogue, Revisting the 50\u27s: The Blacklist in America, in association with the American Issues Forum. The discussion was moderated by Anthony Loeb, chair of the Film Department. Photographer: Randy Donofrio. 21 pages.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/conversations/1001/thumbnail.jp

Through a Glass, Darkly:The CIA and Oral History

This article broaches the thorny issue of how we may study the history of the CIA by utilizing oral history interviews. This article argues that while oral history interviews impose particular demands upon the researcher, they are particularly pronounced in relation to studying the history of intelligence services. This article, nevertheless, also argues that while intelligence history and oral history each harbour their own epistemological perils and biases, pitfalls which may in fact be pronounced when they are conjoined, the relationship between them may nevertheless be a productive one. Indeed, each field may enrich the other provided we have thought carefully about the linkages between them: this article's point of departure. The first part of this article outlines some of the problems encountered in studying the CIA by relating them to the author's own work. This involved researching the CIA's role in US foreign policy towards Afghanistan since a landmark year in the history of the late Cold War, 1979 (i.e. the year the Soviet Union invaded that country). The second part of this article then considers some of the issues historians must confront when applying oral history to the study of the CIA. To bring this within the sphere of cognition of the reader the author recounts some of his own experiences interviewing CIA officers in and around Washington DC. The third part then looks at some of the contributions oral history in particular can make towards a better understanding of the history of intelligence services and the CIA

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith

From a Hiroshima survivor to an AIDS caseworker, from a death row parolee to a woman who emerged from a two-year coma, these interviewees find an eloquence and grace in dealing with a topic many of us have yet to discuss openly and freely.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1198/thumbnail.jp

American Dreams: Lost and Found

Presents 100 interviews with a cross section of American people, both famous and non-famous, who discuss their personal lives and ambitions.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1205/thumbnail.jp

The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream

Studs Terkel interviews three college teachers, four farmers, a high school teacher, neighborhood organizer, stock broker, advertising executive, businesswomen, real estate broker, dentist, doctor, blue collar worker, professional strikebreaker, columnist, unemployed steelworker, lawyer, flight attendant, bartender, CPA, woman engineer, socialite, Congressman, nuclear physicist, author, waitress, KKK member, storyteller, gay activist, sanctuary worker, Christian fundamentalist, Tony Bouza, Erica Bouza, Maggie Kuhn, Victor Reuther, and peace activists Jean and Joe Gump.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1206/thumbnail.jp

Touch and Go: A Memoir

At nearly 95, Studs Terkel has written about everyone\u27s life, it seems, but his own. Here he offers a memoir which--embodying the spirit of the man himself--is youthful and vivacious. Terkel begins by taking us back to his childhood, describing the hectic life of a family trying to earn a living in Chicago. He then goes on to his experiences--as a poll watcher charged with stealing votes for the Democratic machine, as a young theatergoer, and eventually as an actor himself in both radio and on the stage--giving us a portrait of the Chicago of the 1920s and 1930s. He tells of his beginnings as a disc jockey after World War II and as an interviewer and oral historian--a craft he would come to perfect. Finally, he discusses his involvement with progressive politics, leading to his travails during the McCarthy period when he was blacklisted.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1207/thumbnail.jp

Division Street: America

Viewing the inhabitants of a single city, Chicago, as a microcosm of the nation at large, Division Street chronicles the thoughts and feelings of some seventy people from widely varying backgrounds in terms of class, race, and personal history. From a mother and son who migrated from Appalachia to a Native American boilerman, from a streetwise ex–gang leader to a liberal police officer, from the poorest African Americans to the richest socialites, these unique and often intimate first-person accounts form a multifaceted collage that defies any simple stereotype of America.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1195/thumbnail.jp

Studs Terkel\u27s Chicago

Chicago was home to the country’s first skyscraper (a ten-story building built in 1884) and marks the start of the famed Route 66. It is also the birthplace of the remote control (Zenith), the car radio (Motorola) and the first major American city to elect a woman (Jane Byrne) and then an African American man (Harold Washington) as mayor. Its literary and journalistic history is just as dazzling, and includes Nelson Algren, Mike Royko and Sara Paretsky. From Al Capone to the street riots during the Democratic National Convention in 1968, Chicago, in the words of Terkel himself, “has—as they used to whisper of the town’s fast woman—a reputation.”Chicago was of course also home to the Pulitzer Prize–winning oral historian Studs Terkel, who moved to Chicago in 1922 as an eight-year-old and who would make it his home until his death in 2008 at the age of 96. This book is a splendid evocation of Studs’ hometown in all its glory—and all its imperfection.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1199/thumbnail.jp